Bell



June 6, 1950 c. w. GARTHWAIT ET'AL 2,510,559

Filed Fab. 12, 1949 mmvrons cLme' m GARTHWAIT VINCENT TURNER ATTXPatented June 6, 1950 BELL Clyde w. Garthw'ait, Waterbury, com, andVincent Turner, Bronxville, N. Y., assignors to Cly- Del Mfg. 00.,Waterbury, Coma, a corporation 01' Connecticut Application February lz,1949, Serial No. 76,044

. Thisinvention relates to bells, and more particularly to a bell whichhas a shape 'of the flared 0r Liberty bell type, and which is adapted tobe economically formed from sheet metal.

One object of this invention is to provide a complete bell of the abovenature consisting of only two interconnected sheet metal parts whichrequire no additional parts for their securement.

Another object is to provide a bell of the above nature wherein thetongue-supporting and bell-- supporting means are provided by adjacentinner and outer loops which may be struck out of the body portion of thebell in a single machine operation.

Another object is to provide a bell of the above nature wherein thetongue may be attached to the body portion in a simple operation whichwill require no additional parts and no special tools.

Another object is to provide a bell of the above nature in which thebody portion may be drawn from sheet steel, and which when struck by thetongue, will emit a clear musical tone.

A further object is to provide a bell of the above nature which will besimple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy to assemble andmanipulate, compact, ornamental in appearance, and very eillcient anddurable in use.

With these and other objects in view, there has been illustrated on theaccompanying drawing one form in which the invention may conveniently beembodied in practice.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a front view of the improved bell.

Fig. 2 is a similar front view, partly in section, showing the interiorconstruction.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the same, partly in section.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of the inner end portion of thetongue, on an enlarged scale, showing the split eye as it would appearin its initial form before the tongue is assembled with the. bodyportion.

Referring now to the drawing, in which like reference numerals denotecorresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral l0indicates a hollow body portion which comprises a substantially flatcircular top section II, the

5 Claims. (Cl. 116-150) A spaced pair of curved loops l5, it are struckupwardly from the central portion of the circular top section I l inorder to serve as means for suspending the bell from a suitablesupport-a curved intermediate loop I! being struck downwardly fromsaidtop section I l in order to serve as means for supporting a clappertongue IS. The loops IS, IS and II are preferably of the same size, andimmediately adjacent each other.

The tongue I8 is formed of sheet metal and comprisesa striker or clapperl9 shaped in the form of a cup having an integral stem 20 extendingupwardly from one edge thereof. The bottom end of the stem 20 is offsetlaterally so as to bring the striker l9 into a centered position inalignment with the upper part of said stem 20 in the body portion l0,and is of a suitable length to support the striker l9 normally in aposition where it will project slightly below the body portion III toproduce the most eflicient bell striking operation.

The upper end of the stem 20 is provided with an integral circular eye2| which is split at its upper extremity so as to provide side portions22, 23, which will be initially located out of the plane of said eye, inofl'set relation as shown in Fi 4.

In assembling the tongue l8 of the bell with the body portion Illthereof, the offset eye portions 22, 23 may be easily engaged around theinner tongue supportin loop I! of the bell, after which the eye 2| willbe closed by flattening said oifset portions 22, 23 into coplanarrelation as shown in Figs. Zand 3. This closing operation may be easilyaccomplished merely by twisting the tongue [8 manually, or if desired,any suitable pliers may be inserted into the body portion Ill andemployed to press the offset eye portions 22, 23, together.

It will be apparent that both the body portion l0 and the tongue It maybe formed from sheet metal by simple bending and drawing operations.Also each of these parts l0 and I8 may be completely formed in anordinary eyelet machine without intervening manual operations.

The material employed in producing the body It and the clapper 19 willpreferably have a thickness which is approximately proportional to thesize of the bell. It has been found, for example,

that when the bell is one inch in diameter, the body Ill and clapper IQof .012" sheet steel will be very satisfactory, and will produce a bellhaving a clear musical tone.

While there has been disclosed in this specification,onc form in whichthe invention may be embodied, it is to be understood that this form isshown for the purpose of illustration only, and that the invention isnot to be limited to the specific disclosure, but may be modified andembodied in various other forms'without departing from its spirit, Inshort, the invention includes all the modifications and embodimentscomin within the scope oi the following claims.

. Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new andfor which it is desired to secure Letters Patent is:

1. In a bell, a tongue, a body portion having a top section ofsheet-material, and separate inwardly and outwardly struck loopsdisposed centrally of said top section for supporting the tongue and thebell respectively, said loops being integral with said top section.

2. In a bell, a body portion having a top section of sheet material, atongue-supporting loop struck inwardly from the center portion of saidtop section, and a pair of outer bell-supporting loops separately struckoutwardly from said top section at opposite sides ofsaid'tongue-supporting loop, said loops being integral with said topsection.

3. In a bell, a tongue, a body portion of sheet material having asubstantially flat top section, and a plurality of similar immediatelyadjacent central loops separately struck from the material of said topsection and integral therewith, one or said loops extending upwardlyfrom the body portion for supporting the bell, and another of said loopsextending downwardly in said body portion and constituting a means forsuspending the tongue.

4. The invention as defined in claim 3 in which saiddownwardly-extending loop is aligned with a space between twoupwardly-extending loops.

5. The invention as defined in claim 3, in which the upper end ofthetongue is provided with an eye for embracing saiddownwardly-extending loop, said eye being split at its inner extremitywhereby the assembly of the tongue with the body portion will befacilitated.

CLYDE W. GARTHWAI'I'. VINCENT TURNER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name v Date 116,085 Nichols June 20, 1871856,995 Arnold June 11, 1907 1,362,348 Patelis Dec. 14, 1920 1,453,082Rosenberg Apr. 24,1923 2,082,739 Macwilliams June 1, 1937 FOREIGNPATENTS Number Country Date 2,956 Great Britain 1864

